Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-17
FASHIONS FOR FALL.
NEW CoLORS AND NEW FORMS - COSTUMES FOR
AUTUMN wEAR-JEwELS AND oRNAAENTs-BoNNETs
SHORTENING AND BoDIcEs TIGHTENING.


NEW CoLORs AND NEW FORMS COSTUMES FOR
| AUTUMN wEAR-yEwELs AND OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SHORTENING AND BoDIcEs TIGHTENING.
BELrED CoRsAGEs are more than ever in fashion.
GREEK GIRDLks covered with glistening beads
| are In high favor
EPAuLETs OF JET will be favorte adjuncts Of
| fall and winter dresses
ALMOST ANYTHING EXPENSIVE IN WRAPs will be
| fashionable next winter
| FOR COMBINATION HOUSE DRESSES the wide bias
| half g1rdle fronts will be used.
| BAsQUEs AND B0DICEs are gradually being length
ened to cover the hips more deeply.
| MANY OF the new open house jackets are worn
] above loose vests made OF Spanish net.
The WOODEN GOODS for street wear during fall
/ and winter show unusual brlliancy OF tone.
The "Frivolite" ribbon so much used now is
simply very narrow ribbon with picot edge.
LARGE BUTTONS enter into the trimming of many
lail costumes, and are Of very beautiful workman
4 snip.
BEADS about the size Of a pea, made OF Swiss
| ladies.
OPERA HATS will be quite as necessary portion
OF fashionable woman's attire this winter as an
opera cloak.
THE BRACELETS In vogue are simple gold wires
supporting one handsome stone, generally dia-
mond or opal.
THE old and graceful fashion OF wearing long
wells OF gauze wound about the head and shoulders
Is to be revived.
SEALsKIN will continue to be the most fashiona-
wear next winter
The QUAINT DUTCH CLOAK will be much worn by
very young girls this fall. When carefully made
they look very stylish.
The excessively ugly aninne colors, once known
as SolferinO and Magenta, are to be fashionable
again under new names
The FELr-FACED HATs-that is, felt hats with one
color on the outside and another underneath the
Dr1m-are again to be worn.
MUFFs Will be very small this winter, and will
oftener be made OF the dress material trimmed
Win lur, than OF fur entirely.
BLOUSE FRONTS are so popular that they will
continue to be used all winter In plush, sealskin
ana aStrakhan on plain corSageS
DARK RED COVERT COATS, with white silk
waStcoats, are new, and look extremely well over
naVy-Dlue, black, and white skirts.
The FASHIONABLE "yellow" OF the year is deep
orange but 1t is not to be lav1shly used as it was
couple OF years, OF, indeed, even one year ago.
VERY Low-CROwNED BONNETS have appeared at
last, but it is safe TO assert that 1t will take
ruily Two seasons and perhaps more to make them
general.
BEAUTIFUL SLEEVELESS WAISTS are made entirely
OF passementer1es. There are plain black and
gold or silver.
REPPED SILKS OF soft quality, such faille fran
calse and Bengaline, are combined with velvet,
ed.aer PLAIN, striped, or plaided, for visiting and
and narrow, short and full, and ample and expen-
sVe IKE the old continental gile are all in vogue
again this season.
RED House SHOES with black glace kid fOxings
and satin bows are very effective footwear. With
dainty open-wOrk black red silk stockings they
are truly charming.
STRIPES made of Jetted gimps will be fashionable
trimmings, some being in fine narrow lines and
others two or three inches wide IN lOzenge pat
terms, In DOCKS in wheels, or In Greek squares.
LONG Plush CLoAKs are in pelisse or redingote
shape, open up the back and side seams to the
hlps, straight down the front, and with bell
SNAPPED sleeves, that curve wider below the elbow.
NEW SHORT CLOAKS for those wearing mourning
are OF dull ottoman silk, with cord embroidery
done On the garment, bordered with new fluffy
trimming made OF fine narrow Silk braid, curled
very closely.
THE RAGE FOR WHITE TOILETS which has lasted
all summer will continue through the autumn. and
costumes OF yelling, nuns cloth, serge, &C., will
De worn out of doors until the weather grows de-
cidedly colder.
PLUSH will be the ravorite fabric for rich wraps
as 1t is found to be more becoming than velvet on
account OF its rich thick pile, and black plush is
preferred to brown because the latter is considered
an imitation OF seal fur.
NEW ULsTERs for coaching and fashionable
country wear are made OF heavy white serge,
trimmed with large pearl or old silver buttons
Jaunty Jackets Of green billiard CLOTH With gold
buttons, are chosen for seaside wear.
THE ARTIFICIAL FRUITS that Partisan modistes
are using so plentifully now made In wonder
fully natural way. Strawberries are as soft and
cOmpreSS1Dle as the actual fruit; so are the cher
reS; the fruit and blossom are often used to-
gether.
MANY OF the stylish travelling suits for autumn
are made OF queens tweed IN narrow stripes and
bars, or OF 1nely-twined basket-cloth 1llumined
with bright threads of color. Accompanying
these are wraps OF various attractive styles to
suit various figures.
INDIA CASHMERE and other woollens that under
new names closely resemble camers hair and eta
mine are used by French modiSteS In combination
with soft silks that have stripes OF plush or vel
vet or else with heavy but p1able surahs that are
plalded In dull, old-fashioned cOlOrs
THE SPECIAL NEW COLOR for the forthcoming au-
tumn evening dresses Will, without doubt, be that
tender tint known as "wren's egg,n and nothing
can De better suited as background for emDrOi-
derry, lace, or the trimmings or exquisite artificial
no"ers ana Iruit OF the ambitious size, now worn.
COLLARS remain high and close, often to exag-
geration, and are frequently made Of two fabrics.
the one in front matching the vest or plastrOn
and the one On the sides and back Is Of the third
hroder aeu fpa oe nra1dng en-
ished With French pipings OF the same or OF white
or silver.
RICH-HUED AND PALE-ToNED TITLES, with vel
vet in dark colors form combinations for autumn
dress hats. Roman red tulle, combined with
golden olive velvet, is popular trimming. The
combination OF tulle with velvet is also very
handsome In apricot, almond, biscuit or golden
brown tulle, with very dark brown velvet shot
With gold
SHOT, OR CHANGEABLE, VELVET is among the
handsome millinery fabrics used this season. The
velvet is corrugated or ribbed, and some of the
patterns are OF superb coloring, changing in
sheeny lights from gold to scarlet, green to RO-
man red or red to orange yellow, golden brown to
gobelin blue, and like beautiful variations w
GRACEFUL and simply fashioned polonatses are
displayed. made OF plain Gamers hair Limousine,
or India cashmere over striped Or blocked velvet
or plush skirts. The polonaise Is Tapped to the
left hip, and has revers panier the left side
only, while the front drops In a long flowing
drapery. The back is arranged in straight full
pleatS, and is open up the sides and middle to
display the rich skirt beneath. The neck is
finished by plaStrOn OF the material of the
skirt.
Last Days OF Marie AntOinette.
From the August Fortnishtly.
When she was removed to the Conciergerie
prison Lord Ronald Covers "My Queen" Ed.
mund Burke's cynosure OF beauty and grace, had
two dresses, black and a white one which she
wore ON alternate days. She had three chem
iseS, fine enough In texture and trimmed with
lace, but dropping into shreds from over-use They
gave her clean one every ten days; meanwhile
blessed young creature called Bault was almost
necessarily occupied in mend1ng the linen the
shoes and the STOCKINGS the caDtfve Thie ,rirl